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Isaiah 53:9

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Isaiah 53:9

They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

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Surely he has borne our sickness and carried our suffering; yet we considered him plagued, struck by God, and afflicted.

But he was pierced for our transgressions. He was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought our peace was on him; and by his wounds we are healed.

All we like sheep have gone astray. Everyone has turned to his own way; and Yahweh has laid on him the iniquity of us all.

He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he didn’t open his mouth. As a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he didn’t open his mouth.

He was taken away by oppression and judgment. As for his generation, who considered that he was cut off out of the land of the living and stricken for the disobedience of my people?

They made his grave with the wicked, and with a rich man in his death, although he had done no violence, nor was any deceit in his mouth.

Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise him. He has caused him to suffer. When you make his soul an offering for sin, he will see his offspring. He will prolong his days and Yahweh’s pleasure will prosper in his hand.

After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.

Therefore I will give him a portion with the great. He will divide the plunder with the strong; because he poured out his soul to death and was counted with the transgressors; yet he bore the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors.

The counter-reading

How this passage is read within its own context.

On the critical reading, the clause on violent action and the clause on truthful speech are poetic parallelism — two synonymous descriptions of one condition, blamelessness — so isolating the speech clause as a separate prophecy treats parallel expressions as independent predictions. Critics compare this to other Hebrew poetic pairs treated as distinct predictions, arguing the same synonym is being counted twice. They acknowledge 1 Peter 2:22's quotation is undeniable but hold that the NT author's citation of one hemistich does not establish it as a prediction separate from its parallel partner. On this view one characterization of innocence yields multiple prophecy-claims.

The fulfillment reading

How this passage is read as pointing to the Messiah.

On the messianic-fulfillment reading, Isaiah 53:9's clause affirming that the Servant's speech was free of falsehood is applied to 1 Peter 2:22, which explicitly cites it in describing Jesus. Proponents treat the apostolic quotation as recognition of a specific correspondence between the Servant's truthfulness and Jesus' conduct. They further argue that the clause on speech addresses a distinct dimension of innocence — purity of word — as opposed to the clause on conduct, which concerns action, so each finds its own fulfillment. On this view the direct citation confirms the clause as a recognized messianic prediction.

How the New Testament uses this passage

Each entry names how the New Testament author draws on the passage — a direct quotation, an allusion, an echo, or a typological reading. An echo or an allusion is not the same as a prediction; the label says which is which.

  • 1Peter 2:22 Direct quotation

    1 Peter 2:22 explicitly quotes Isaiah 53:9's clause about no deceit in the mouth, reproducing its wording within the epistle's description of Christ.